Monday, March 03, 2008

Utah Trip

We are back and settled after our fun & relaxing trip to Utah to visit my family. We went out to celebrate my Dad's 50th birthday and to be there when my sister, Jessica, sealed her son, James to her and her husband, Steve. The rest of the week we had fun hanging out and doing some fun things. Now for any of you who don't know my family or maybe have forgotten, but we all take A LOT of pictures, so for those of you who just want to see a couple pictures I have posted a few, but if you want to see more pictures, please click on the links to view more pictures of the events that we did!



We went to James Reed Moon's sealing in the Provo temple which was wonderful, the sealer was perfect since he too adopted 3 of his kids, what a beautiful ceremony.






We celebrated my Dad's 50th birthday with a delicious bacon wrapped fillet Mignon dinner & strawberry fruit pizza for dessert!



We also went over to Jess & Steve's to play their new Wii, they played bowling & boxing on the Wii sports. It was hilarious watching them play.



Josh was so excited to be able to go snowboarding with Steve for a day. Thanks to Kandis for getting them free passes to go & Jess for letting Josh use her snowboarding gear, they had a free day on the slopes with 7 inches of fresh powder. Josh loved it!



We also were able to take 4 generation pictures with my Grandma Stevenson. She hates to get her picture taken, and she was such a trooper for taking so many pictures, especially on her birthday! We had fun eating lunch with Grandma & Grandpa and then Megan & Kylie went out and played in their backyard on the merry-go-round.



We also attempted to take a family portrait since we were all there except for my little brother who is serving his mission. This was the best family shot, but you have to check out some of the other pictures, there are some cute ones of the kids and of Josh & I!



We were excited to find out that there would be a gymnastics meet while we were there and so we jumped on the opportunity to go. We took Megan to gymnastics meets when she was little to watch her aunt Kandis perform. Unfortunately Kandis isn't performing anymore, but is now working at the meets. Megan wasn't interested in watching the girls compete this time she was more interested in watching where Cosmo was at. Bryson on the other hand was watching very intently, and was a little nervous when Cosmo came over. After the meet we put the kids to bed and spent a fun night with Nic & Kandis.



While we were in Utah I wanted to take the kids to the Dinosaur Museum at Thanksgiving Point. It was a lot of fun, the kids loved it, and once we let Bryson out of his stroller he was everywhere. This picture was at the very end & Bryson didn't want to be held and started pulling my hair and this picture was captured, great picture, but it hurt!



My Mom wanted to take the kids to the pet store to let them each choose a fish, so we made an outing of this event the night before we went home. Megan of course wanted to get a $7.00 fish, but we ended up talking her down to a $2.79 fish, since it will probably die before we go back out there. But it was a lot of fun see how excited she was to pick out her fish.

Thanks to my family for everything, watching our kids so that we could go on a date, putting them to bed, and feeding us. It was a great week! Can't wait to see you guys again... HERE!

6 comments:

JACK!E said...

Sounds like you guys had tons of fun here! Your sister's kids are sooo cute! I love your son's blue eys.

Jessica said...

That was a fun post to read. We are so grateful for you guys coming out and supporting our family. Thanks for being there for me in the temple. You also wrote James' name wrong. It's James Reed. LOL Glad you came out again. Oh and thanks to Jackie for her comment on my kids! They are so cute huh! :-)

Alexis said...

Sorry Jess, I fixed it!

Linda Kelly said...

Fun to read about your great trip to Utah. It was hard to have you so close but not able to see you all. Kandis and Nic had a great time visiting with you before they came out here. I hope she posts some pictures of their trip to California for you to see. Glad you had a great time.

Allie said...

You guys had a fun filled week in Utah, holy shmokes!! That's more than I did my whole life living in Provo! (kidding) but it sounds like you had a good time. I am jealous...i wish i could go home! (We live in Arizona, by the way, since troy is in dental school, not sure if i told you that) That is so nice that you could be there for Jessie, your entire family is just so cute, I love reading about you!

Julia Kelly said...

OH, looks like a lot of fun! good to get an update. Nothing better then spending time with family.